Bitter Factoids 5

Many people use statistics the way drunk people uses a light post—more for support than illumination. Here are 17 facts to drop into a conversation this weekend.

300

Percentage by which enrollment in bankruptcy CLE courses has grown in the past six months according Lawline.com.

$5 million

Minimum guaranteed annual paycheck for Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker lawyer Luc Despins, who came on board last year to beef up the firm’s high-profile bankruptcy practice, according to The WSJ Law Blog.

$200,000

Average salary for IT Support Managers in Big Firms according to Sue Magazine for women in litigation.

$86,159

Median expected salary for a typical litigation manager, according to CNN Salary Wizard.

14

Number of law firms included in the Project for Attorney Retention’s annual survey on gender in the legal profession that failed to promote a single female to partner.

Approximate amount paid out to 35 retiring partners at Heller Ehrman before the firm filed for bankruptcy late last year, according to a Statement of Financial Affairs filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California.

271

Number of results for the Google query “law school gunner.”

2

Number of lawyers who graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law who are employed at Morrison & Foerster according to mofo.com.

88

Number of lawyers who graduated from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law employed at Morrison & Foerster according to mofo.com.

$18.95

Price of the “Sorry, I only date lawyers” t-shirt available on Zazzle.com.

$75,000

Yale Law School’s threshold for instituting a pay freeze. The new policy limits salary increases to faculty and staff earning below $75,000, according to The ABA Journal.

30

Percent increase of new boutique and solo law firms opened in 2008 in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to Charlotte Business Journal.

Ha! I know one of those Golden Gate grads. Golden Gate is popular for its part-time program. None of the tier-1 schools in the Bay Area have part-time programs, so people who work full-time are stuck going to toilet schools like Golden Gate and Univ. of San Francisco.

Bill Dugan

Look, who cares where the California women go to law school as long as they’re stacked? I think getting better looking females into law school is ultimately good for the profession.